>>> I'm using OCS Inventory to create a database of packages and their versions
>>> for my SL machines.  I'd like to write a script that goes through the
>>> database and flags the ones that are out-of-date, indicating how important
>>> an upgrade is.  Is there a source of package versions and
>>> errata that is easy to parse by machine?

Not exactly what you have in mind , but probably could be
changed to use data from OCS database instead of
collecting data itself:

http://pakiti.sourceforge.net/


Cheers

Jarek
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